The Apple Tree Plantation at Tserok Tibetan Refugee Settlement - financed by Swedish NGO IM.
Namgyaling Tibetan Refugee Settlement, more known as Tserok, lies just South of Marpha, close to Jomsom - the administrative center of Mustang, Nepal.
Swedish NGO IM, my employer, has supported this settlement since the 1970's, with a school, a nursery, an Old People's Home, and a Tree Plantation - apples, which the region and Marpha in particular - is famous for.
On Empoweringvision.com Tsering Passang writes the following about this remote settlement:
"When Tibet was invaded by the People’s Republic of China in 1950, His Holiness the Dalai Lama was forced to flee Tibet into exile, after the failed Tibetan National Uprising in Lhasa in March 1959. Some 80,000 Tibetans followed their leader to India. Over the following years, more Tibetans fled into the neighbouring countries including Nepal and Bhutan.
A contingent of dedicated Tibetan freedom fighters, over 2000 volunteers, was regrouped in exile to launch resistance against the China’s illegal rule in Tibet. In the 1960s and early ‘70s, Tibetan resistance fighters, popularly known as “Khampa Guerrillas”, based their covert operation in Mustang, funded by the CIA, from where they conducted military raids into Tibet. A majority of the Tibetan resistance fighters and their families are now resettled in Pokhara and Kathmandu valleys where they have lived since the end of their resistance movement in Mustang in 1974. Mustang is also home to several hundred Tibetan refugees with most of them based in the Lower Mustang (known as Lo-Tserok) Namgyal Ling Tibetan Refugee Settlement."
The Apple Tree Plantation at Tserok Tibetan Refugee Settlement - financed by Swedish NGO IM.
Namgyaling Tibetan Refugee Settlement, more known as Tserok, lies just South of Marpha, close to Jomsom - the administrative center of Mustang, Nepal.
Swedish NGO IM, my employer, has supported this settlement since the 1970's, with a school, a nursery, an Old People's Home, and a Tree Plantation - apples, which the region and Marpha in particular - is famous for.
On Empoweringvision.com Tsering Passang writes the following about this remote settlement:
"When Tibet was invaded by the People’s Republic of China in 1950, His Holiness the Dalai Lama was forced to flee Tibet into exile, after the failed Tibetan National Uprising in Lhasa in March 1959. Some 80,000 Tibetans followed their leader to India. Over the following years, more Tibetans fled into the neighbouring countries including Nepal and Bhutan.
A contingent of dedicated Tibetan freedom fighters, over 2000 volunteers, was regrouped in exile to launch resistance against the China’s illegal rule in Tibet. In the 1960s and early ‘70s, Tibetan resistance fighters, popularly known as “Khampa Guerrillas”, based their covert operation in Mustang, funded by the CIA, from where they conducted military raids into Tibet. A majority of the Tibetan resistance fighters and their families are now resettled in Pokhara and Kathmandu valleys where they have lived since the end of their resistance movement in Mustang in 1974. Mustang is also home to several hundred Tibetan refugees with most of them based in the Lower Mustang (known as Lo-Tserok) Namgyal Ling Tibetan Refugee Settlement."